Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023.

archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog

Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal b…

The FBI is hunting for the archived website that's making the media u…

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CAPTCHA successor Privacy Pass has no easy answers for online abuse | The Mozilla Blog

As much as the Web continues to inspire us, we know that sites put up with an awful lot of abuse in order to stay online. Denial of service attacks, fraud

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

Solving Fossil SCM's CAPTCHA in 171 characters | nns.ee

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Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault

“There's a story going around: after the drone strikes on Yandex data centres, comments on AfD and MAGA accounts collapsed. We monitor 17,000+ politicians, media and civil society accounts in 30+ countries. 50,000+ posts a day. So we checked. We don't see it. 🧵 https://t.co/8quSNosqv0”

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

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Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era | The Mozilla Blog

If you’ve been running into endless CAPTCHAS or website login requests lately, you’re not imagining things.  Websites, facing a rising tide of abu

Hellbanned from Hacker News

Yesterday I submitted a post on Hacker News out of frustration at moderators pedantically changing post titles. After quickly rising to the number two spot on the front page with 482 points and 37 comments, the post was deleted by a moderator, presumably the operator of the site, Paul Graham.

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NMA Condemns Arrogant Meta’s ‘Shameless Landgrab Attempt’ To Plunder News Publisher Websites - News Media Association

Responding to a Nieman Lab report that Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites if publishers continue to use Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, News Media Association Chief Executive Theo Bamber said: “This shameless landgrab attempt from Meta to scrape anything and everything from news publisher and business websites to train their […]

How the Blog Broke the Web

I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan